26 degC 97% humidity Did quite a bit of walking today - see maps After breaks we met in the lobby at 8:30am and visited the place the monk set himself on fire in protest against something Then went to Notre Dam and the Post Office which is still a functional PO. We had coffee at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Cafe before heading for then Peace Palace which was closed until 1pm. Decided to try the war museum which was also closed so went back to hotel for a rest. Ne...

Forgot to get weather details Breakfast was a bit light-on but we only had 50km of riding today and we knew we would get plenty of snack and water stops so weren't too worried. Rode away from the hotel about 07:45am and were soon on the back roads amongst the real people, again. Had a mixture of wide roads, skinny ones, smooth, not so smooth and downright rough! Muddy in parts as well because it rained last night. Our first stop was at a rice noodle factory, seem...

28 degC 88% humidity Kim had arranged for us to be picked up at 5:30am to visit the floating markets. Wendy let the boys go without her as she had done floating markets before. She waited for them to return before having breakfast which was a bit rushed due to the scheduled departure time, but we all made it. We drove about 10km out of city before riding. About 1km later we queued to board the ferry to an island in the Delta, before riding another 10km to the oth...

26 degC 94% humidity Had breakfast at 6:30am and were ready by 7:15 for a 7:30am departure. Little did we know that we would have to wait for the guides to deconstruct the bikes and pack them in the van. Oh well, sigh. We drove for about 12km then rode for 25km to the Ba Chuc killing fields - Pol Pot's work in Vietnam. Back on the bikes for another 25km in the Mekong Delta and then packed up the bikes and jumped in the bus for another 60km or so to the Crocodile ...

27 degC, 90% humidity We started out at 7:45 with a ride to another very local restaurant for breakfast Cambodian style - chicken noodle soup which was surprisingly sustaining. It was the back on the bikes for the 45km to the border with Vietnam. The route was more of the same and the pace was like we were at boot camp not on holiday. We had our first drinks stop at the 25km mark which was long overdue by Wendy's calculation. Whilst it was not especially hot, it ...